Kazimierz Podsadecki - Artist Info

About Kazimierz Podsadecki

  • Biography

    Kazimierz Podsadecki was a painter and creator of applied graphic art derived from the constructivist* tradition. He was also interested in photomontage* and experimental films. He was born in 1904 in Zabierzów, near Kraków, and died in 1970 in Kraków.

    In 1923, he graduated from the Department of Decorative Arts of the Industrial School in Kraków. Afterwards, he became involved with the avant-garde periodical Zwrotnica edited by Tadeusz Peiper. At that time, Podsadecki was preparing the now-lost works, which Peiper called photoforms.

    These works were photos of compositions made from various objects, which may have been influenced by the concepts of Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. From 1926, he was responsible for the layo...

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